Window check rail painter



Oct. 11, 1960 w. B. NELSON 2,955,308

. wmoow CHECK RAIL PAINTER Filed Dec. 4, 1959 INVENTOR ZZ/Z'ZZZ'ahLB. Malian ATTORNEY United States Patent wnsrnow CHECK RAIL PAINTER William B. Nelson, 600 W315: St., Norfolk, Va.

Filed Dec. 4, 1959, S81. No. 857,280

1 Claim. (c1. 15-106) ever, the painter was, in some instances, unable to see the rail being painted and, in painting the upper inside rail of the lower window, the painter was required to work from an awkward, fatiguing position. The object now is to provide a combined sash rail and trim brushing and painting device which will permit the painter to see, at all times, the surface on which he is working, and which will provide for the brushing off of scale and dirt, as well as the application of paint.

These and other objects will be apparent'from the following specification and drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the combined paint brush and wire brush, showing the wire brush installed and the paint brush removed;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation, showing the paint brush installed;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic side elevation of the device as used from the outside of a room for brushing off the upper-outside rail surface of a lower window sash; and,

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing the mode of use for brushing off with wire brush the lower-inside rail surface of an upper window sash from the inside of a room.

Referring now to the drawing, in which like reference numerals denote similar elements, the combined paint brush and wire brush 2 is preferably formed mainly of bent sheet metal and consists of a handle 4, an elongate bent shank 6, a bent neck 7 and a double-faced head 8. Slideways 10 and 12 are formed on the opposite faces of head 8 by parallel opposed pairs of inwardly extending flanges 14 and 16 for slideably receiving either a paint brush 18 or a wire brush 24. Paint brush 18 has a bristle, felt, cloth or other paint holding surface 20 on a backing strip 22, and wire brush 24 has stiff bristles 26 on a similar backing strip, not shown. Either Wire brush 24 or paint brush 18 may be installed in either slideway 10 or 12. Y

The flatness of shank 6 is important in that the combined paint brush and wire brush may be used for cleaning and painting radiators, closely spaced bannisters, and other devices into which it is necessary to reach through a comparatively small slot-like space. The primary usage, however, is for cleaning and painting the mating rails of a double-hung window.

Figures 3 and 4 illustrate the mode of operation. It will be understood that paint brush 18 is first removed, if necessary because of space limitation, and wire brush 24 is used for brushing off the scaled paint and dirt from the surfaces to be painted. Lower and upper windows 28 and 30 respectively are shown partly open. Working from the outside, wire brush 24 is placed in slideway 10. Shank 6 fits freely between the lower rail 31 of the upper window 30 and the pane of lower window 28. Thusly positioned, the exterior face of head 8 coincides with the inward and downward inclination of the outer surface 32 of the top rail 33 of the lower window, and the user can see the work from the outside looking in. As shown in Fig. 4, the upwardly and outwardly inclined surface 34 of the lower rail 31 of upper window 30 can be cleaned by placing wire brush 24 in slideway 12. The interior angle of neck 7 coincides with the upward and outward inclination of the inwardly facing surface 34 of the lower rail 31 of upper window 30, and the work can be observed from the user, then on the inside looking out. After the rails have been cleaned, paint brush 18 is substituted for the wire brush so that the rails may be painted in the same manner.

The invention is not limited to the details shown and described, but is intended to cover all substitutions, modifications and equivalents within the scope of the following claim, wherein the term brush means is intended to cover both a swab and a brush.

I claim:

In a device for cleaning and painting mating window sash rails, one rail having an upwardly and outwardly inclined surface and the other rail having a downwardly and inwardly inclined surface, a handle, an elongate shank connected at one to said handle and having a bend in one direction therefrom, a neck on the other end of said shank and having a bend in the opposite direction therefrom, a head on said neck, said head having an opposed pair of generally flat sides, one of said sides forming an interior angle with the portion of said shank adjacent said neck and the other of said sides forming an exterior angle with said portion, the interior angle conforming to the angle of upward and outward inclination of said one rail and the exterior angle conforming to the angle of downward and inward inclination of the other rail, means for selectively mounting brush means on respectively opposide sides of said head, said means comprising an opposed pair of inwardly extending flanges on each side of said head, said flanges forming similar slideways, and brush means selectively engaging. in said slideways, said brush means including a flat backing strip sli-dably engaging between an opposed pair of said flanges, and brushing surface means on said backing strip.

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